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Guidance: completing form AP1

Updated 7 October 2024

Applies to England and Wales

Details of how to complete each panel are set out below. There is no need to send a covering letter.

This guidance assumes the person sending the application to HM Land Registry is not a professional conveyancer.

1. Panel 1: local authority area serving the property

Write here the council you pay your council tax to. This will be either:

• county borough
• a unitary authority
• a London borough
• a district council

2. Panel 2: title number(s)

Write here the title number(s).

3. Panel 3: this application affects

Use the first box if your application affects the whole of the registered title. If your application relates to altering the numbers of people owning the title (for example, Mr Jones to Mr and Mrs Jones) this would usually affect the whole of the title.

Only use the second box if you are making an application that affects part of the title(for example, a sale of a piece of garden or a lease affecting part of a building). You will normally need to describe the land affected by description (such as “edged red on the plan to the transfer”) or by attaching a plan to the AP1.

4. Panel 4: application, priority and fees

List here the applications you are making (for example, discharge of mortgage, assent, change of address for service), inserting one on each line. Under the value column you will need to enter how much is being paid for the property (if anything). If there is no money changing hands, then enter how much the property is worth. In this case you do not need to get a professional valuation, we accept a valuation by anyone given in good faith. If the amount paid is in a currency other than pounds sterling, provide the equivalent value in pounds sterling. You can ring Customer Support on 0300 006 0411 to find out the correct fee to pay.

Tick the box for payment by cheque or postal order (the other option is for those with a prior direct debit arrangement with HM Land Registry). Make cheques or postal orders payable to “HM Land Registry”.

5. Panel 5: documents lodged

List all the documents you are sending to us. We will only require certified copies of deeds or documents you send to us. Once we have made a scanned copy of the documents you send to us, they will be destroyed. This applies to both originals and certified copies unless the document is classed as a ‘cherished document’. Cherished documents include items such as birth, marriage and death certificates, passports and probate certificates. We will return the originals of these documents to you if they are lodged.

To certify that a copy of a document is a true copy of the original please write “I certify this to be a true copy of the original dated……… signed……………..Name printed…………….date………….” on the face of the copied document.

If you are sending additional documents, please list them as separate documents.

6. Panel 6: the applicant

Write here the name of the person(s) who is/are actually applying to change the register.

7. Panel 7: application lodged by

If you are a professional customer, fill in the details of your firm here including a phone number and email address, if you have them. You must provide either a postal or DX address for correspondence and a key number, if applicable.

If you are a citizen, fill in your name and address here including a phone number and email address, if you have them.

If you include an email address, we will use it to contact you about your application.

We will deal only with the person named in panel 7 of the application form. Requests to correspond with a third party will be refused. If you apply through the post, we will acknowledge receipt of your application only if an email address is provided.

8. Panel 8: third party notification

Leave this panel blank. It was previously used when you wanted us to notify a third party once the application had been completed but we no longer send these notifications.

9. Panel 9: address for service

The address for service is the address of the property owners we will use if we need to write to them. Please select the correct option.

If your application is one where there is no change of ownership but an address already shown in the register for a proprietor of the registered estate needs changing, include in panel 4 ‘change of address for service’ and complete this panel.

10. Panel 10: new charges

You will not need to fill out this panel unless you are registering a new mortgage.

11. Panel 11: disclosable overriding interests

These are certain interests that you need to tell us about if they affect you.

Disclosable overriding interests include (but are not limited to):

• leases for 1-7 years
• interests of people in actual occupation
• customary rights
• coal mining
• franchises
• manorial rights
• crown rents
• payments in lieu of tithes
• liability to repair the chancel of a church
• certain easements
• rights relating to embankments and or sea/river walls
• profits a prendre

12. Panels 12 to 14: evidence of identity

These panels must be completed with the details of all the parties to the application and the person(s) listed in panel 7 as submitting the application, see our Evidence of identity guidance.

13. Panel 15: signature

The applicant in panel 6 should sign the form where it says ‘applicant’ and insert the date.

14. Fee

For more information on fees for HM Land Registry applications, see Registration services fees.

15. Where to send application

To find out where to send the completed form, see HM Land Registry address for applications.